Panic Attacks

If you have never suffered from having a panic attack then you want to pray you never do. Panic attacks are more serious than you can ever imagine. It is has been said that people who suffer regularly from them are more prone to having a heart attack and this is not good. However, the threat of dying from heart disease for panic attack patients was 24% less than among non-sufferers. Panic attacks (also known as anxiety attacks) do bring symptoms but thankfully harmless ones, but still uncomfortable ones to have to tolerate. Panic attacks are the most extreme manifestation of panic disorder, an anxiety response resulting from an over-production and under-use of adrenalin, the bodily chemicals that cause them.

When the anxiety reaction has no use for adrenalin, this influential hormone can make a group of physical responses which can peak with the structure of a panic attack. This response is natural and physical - it has nothing to do with mental or physical illness or chemical imbalances, but it can feel very threatening indeed. Some people handle their panic attacks better than others, however at the end of the day why handle them when you can treat them to make handling even more easily. People who suffer from panic attacks are not mad as some folk believe. They may well be mad over the fact that they have them but other from that they are as sane as you and me. Assumptions like this can cause problems for the patient and the onlooker. People need to understand what panic attacks are so they can give support to the ailing person.

Panic attacks form when the Amygdale, a small organ in the brain which shapes part of the subconscious mind and plays a vital part of the activation of the anxiety response, becomes re-set at a higher than appropriate level of anxiety, tipping the sufferer into panic attacks mode in a split second; often without any external stimulation or catalyst. Panic attack symptoms are normally a more severe description of the symptoms experienced during generalised anxiety. These include.

• Breathless
• Pains in the chest
• Stomach cramps
• Diarrhoea
• Pacing heart
• Dizziness or giddiness
• Tingling in the extremities
• Muscle aches and pains
• Perspiration

It`s sometimes the aftermath of having a panic attack that is the most stressful. A patient after having suffered a panic attack is normally left feeling weak and frail, lethargic, confused, emotional and paining. If you are uncertain at times when you start experiencing spasms of unusualness that is giving you reason for concern then make an appointment to speak with your GP. Your doctor will be able to determine if you are suffering from panic attacks or other. Whether it is anxiety, stress or panic attacks you think you are having then you will need medical attention to stable the condition and ease the nasty symptoms connected to each disorder. The quicker you get treatment the quicker you can get on with leading a normal life, free from having panic attacks or anxiety bouts. If someone close to you is showing signs they a have a health problem of this nature then you must try and help them and get them to seek treatment right way.

Why prolong the discomforts that derive from these types of conditions. Disorders as such has a way of affecting people in many ways and one is it can seriously upset your way of life. In a way of disabling you from doing things that you may have in the past always naturally done.
Start today for tomorrow to be a new tomorrow for you without the stresses and anxieties stemming from your panic attacks.